Episode 336: We All Have Our Own Agendas

We never need to know the time, the twins tell Terrastina, so we want to take our watch apart. It’s your watch, says Terrastina. The twins pry off the crystal and pull the hands away, bending them up like sundial gnomons. They remove the back, revealing gears and the mainspring. One of them goes to Terrastina’s toolbox and returns with a hammer. She drops the hammerhead onto the watch, making it crack and crumble to pieces. The twins sort through the liberated gears and press the teeth onto the skin of their palms leaving temporary tracks of minute depressions.